Matthew Dennis
Assistant professor
Assistant professor
Matthew J. Dennis is an assistant professor in ethics of technology at TU Eindhoven. His research focuses on how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, challenge our notions of creativity, autonomy, fairness, and well-being. He is also interested in how intercultural perspectives on human flourishing can guide the future design of emerging technologies. His article, ‘Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being’, won the Eindhoven University of Technology Postdoctoral Article Award (2021), he is the author of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments (Routledge 2020), and the co-editor of Philosophy of Fame & Celebrity (Bloomsbury 2024), Values for a Post-Pandemic Future (2023), Ethics of Self-Cultivation (Routledge 2018). Matthew was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (2019–21) and an Early Career Innovation Fellow at University of Warwick (2019). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI (2023), Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics (2023), and University of Cambridge's Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2020). He currently co-directs the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies research consortium. He received his Joint Monash-Warwick PhD in 2019.